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| Demeter Szilárd and the independent press |
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Demeter makes Szilárd proud that he is approached not only by the Mamluk press but also by independent newspapers and asked or anxious about real questions. Or both. The director of the Petőfi Literary Museum, one of the most prominent directors of cultural power in the past, posted his responses to Magyar Narancs on Facebook before the newspaper was published, and this time he did the same with his responses to an employee’s questions. from hvg.hu. As far as we know he never got in touch with our colleague so he couldn’t feel bad for him plus he even recently came as a guest of HVG Terrace and didn’t seem very offended there but now he didn’t expect the written interview to come up . in his position. He wrote things like this: Dear Minor Hanna! Of course I will answer. But 1.) since HVG has repeatedly ‘forgotten’ to ask me (too) about the things that concern me, 2.) when asked, there was not much thank you for saying it subtly, they quoted what I had to say quite selectively I feel some determination and bias in my questions, and 4.) since my FB site says this has become a major topic for some reason, I will post my full interview on Facebook after hitting the Submit button, true to my previous practice. Greetings, Demeter Szilárd So this is frank practice. Which implies that in Demeter Szilárd’s world, the press can only be a spokesperson (for example, a journalist must be deprived of the opportunity to be questioned by publishing the first version of an interview) or simply want to appear, and he think this post is frankly correct. It seems more like a visceral style to us, but his soul is in it. For our part, the interview is still published, it belongs to the cultural era. Ivan Zsolt Nagy responsible editor |
hvg.hu: What about the solution that in 2020 a politician will protest against the value system that he considers harmful by destroying, shredding and shredding the books that represent him in public? Do you agree with the action of Dora Dúró?
Demeter Szilárd: I like to believe that I live in a free country. This means that all adults are responsible for their actions. And it also means that the right to freedom of opinion and expression is guaranteed. The limits of this have been set by the legislature in the Basic Law, a significant part of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights has been incorporated into the Basic Law by the drafters, so I think we have a good enough legal environment and compatible with the EU for different legal resources. opportunities.
In other words, if someone thinks that Dora Dúró, Ms Dúró’s representative, has exceeded the acceptable limit of expressing her opinion when writing a book, they should submit a report.
It is up to the Hungarian court to determine whether Dora Dúró committed an illegal act. If not, it’s a matter of taste and value from now on.
According to my personal values and tastes, we don’t burn books, we don’t shred them.
And not only because it was a common practice in different disastrous periods of European history, but also because the book is (to me) valuable. I have an irrational relationship with books, you could say that I love them. I also have many thousands, I get dozens of better and worse jobs every day, but we don’t pull any. So I do not agree with Dora Dúró, but I would not forbid him to express his opinion.
hvg.hu: As director of PIM, what is your message to the book industry, which is now the target of a far-right attack? (Stores, bookstores, and publishers receive harassing messages, threatening phone calls, and inciting posters on their doors from far-right activists.)
D. Sz.: Legislation, other means of reparation. Live with them. Do you think protection is if we shake hands on Facebook every day or if they write well in the newspaper? When this book was published, they knew there could be a debate about it. Anno, when Áron Mónus published the My fightIn Hungarian, the expert TGM suggested that readers take to the streets and lift all the stalls where they sell. Sorry, upstairs.
I do not agree with that, nor do I agree with the publication, but freedom of expression arises in both cases. (The attic is also full of threatening messages, and many seemingly normal people can go crazy if they attack as a comment.)
So the basic formula is this: Pagony has released a book that they knew will outgrow the guarantee for many. (In fact, published by the Labrisz Lesbian Association, Pagony is just one of the distributors – ed.)
As a result of the scandal, by the way, the book is selling far more than any traditional marketing supports, which is to say, it has a higher profit. I don’t know if the strategy was conscious, but it sure will make money. This is a classic trading company.
Elsewhere, recently in the case of the Woody Allen biography, the Hachette Book Group tended to stop publishing a contracted book because the post-launch scandal seemed too great. As CEO of PIM, I would not dare to have a voice in the life of companies. What interests me the most is that, once again, we are discussing books, so the book is important to Hungarians as a carrier of culture, it is encouraging.
hvg.hu: Have you read any of the disputed books? THE A fairy tale for everyonet, a Owl and the third Áor simply Ervin Lázár The seven-headed fairycollection of fairy tales? What do you think of these books?
D. Sz.: I read Ervin Lázár. All your work. And he has all his work, waiting there on the shelf for us to read when the child grows up. Until then, I shoot sometimes because I really enjoy it. The guy was a genius, one of our best storytellers, and we are strong in children’s literature. And even the works of Elek Benedek, Sándor Weöres, István Csukás, Ervin Lázár or Sándor Fodor Tweezers(It was also an experience, it reminds me, but I won’t mention it any more, the collection is amazing), so as long as we can get these books off the shelf, we can read them to the kids / children, I don’t care if they write every day a little million awareness posts, or anything disguised as a storybook.
hvg.hu: You wrote a Facebook post about tolerance a few days ago. At this point, point out that if someone expects you to approve of BLMBTQ + propaganda, they are intolerant. * Do you consider the storybook in question to be a propaganda product? If so, how can you substantiate this claim with a book that teaches acceptance that you consider important? (Not only against gays, but also against women, those living in minorities, or adoption, for example). Please clarify this.
D.Sz.: I don’t know how much propaganda or how much is about the adults who wrote it. Because I guess it’s more about them than they were written for kids.
They want to be kind or hide behind stories for self-therapeutic purposes, I have no idea, I don’t even care.
Since kids are not stupid, they don’t need to be sensitized, they quickly take it off if something isn’t kosher. And they do not see, for example, that a gypsy child is poor, but they see that the companion of a child, let’s say, wears worn and torn clothes, does not have things like the rest, but the decipherment that this child is gypsy and poor, we deliver them. My position of tolerance is not about children, but about adults: I have been briefly told that tolerance means tolerance, at best acceptance, not approval. I cannot morally approve of something that goes against my values. To take a slightly more neutral example: as Catholics, we can’t approve of Protestantism (it has a dogmatic stumbling block), how well we’ve been with it for a few hundred years (mostly). This notion of tolerance is translated from its original meaning by those who convert under the heading of awareness. “If you don’t support Pride, you’re a bad person.” This is a bigoted moralizing theorem. Come on, why was I …
hvg.hu: If a foreign publisher applies to PIM’s Translation Support Office with the A fairy tale for everyone Would you like to translate a book with your cooperation, would it be an obstacle to the implementation of the project?
D.Sz.: I have no idea, I have a professional board of directors, which decides. I would not make a decision for them.
hvg.hu: Do you think the book in question is “radically changing” your child’s readers? (as also mentioned in that post). What do you mean by radical change?
D.Sz.: I do not know what changes the book in question, what not, I would have to read it.
I attended a five-year teacher training course, with quite a bit of psychology, pedagogical training, I’m not sure it’s my most important teaching. To understand the world in the age of the Ovis, you may not need to know what homosexuality is.
But it sure is irritating to poultry when put under moral pressure. Let me decide what is right for me and what is not, and let me decide what kind of life I want to live. If I live a heterosexual life in a traditional family model – father, mother, children – that is my choice and responsibility. Since my ancestors lived like this, in fact the vast majority of humanity lives like this, I believe this is a life practice that has a reason for being. Which does not prevent me from tolerating other types of relationship systems.
But if homosexuals, transgender people, those who want to marry an iron, what I know, where we are, want to tolerate their life practices, I rightly hope that they will let me and my own values live and raise my children in this. .
If you want to change this (see like “BLMBTQ + mandatory support” above), I feel like it’s a radical enough attempt to change that to activate my defensive reflexes.
hvg.hu: What was your favorite story, what kind of story did you read to your child (ren)?
D.Sz.: I’ve listed a number of excellent storytellers above, but hey, I read spotty in my childhood Grandpa’s Fairy Tale Treeseries, I grew up on folk tales, Father Elek (Benedek Elek) was the god, I could not highlight a tale. Our three year old is the usual Berry and baby, You have, Boribón-Drange was recently highlighted by the genius András Dániel Kufliseries, I can’t thank you enough. Also pay attention to Small townI am waiting for you so that you do not get bored of the largest texts, because then Ervin Lázár and another two hundred contemporary children’s literary works mixed with the classics will arrive. The bulls have separate shelves.
* “So if you expect me to of a white, Christian, national and straight householder to approve of BLMBTQ + propaganda, you are intolerant. That is, it violated the world’s most basic value BLMBTQ +. Practically the basis of your own world of values.
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